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[[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant Colonel]] '''Sir James Robert Dunlop Smith''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|KCSI|KCVO|CIE}} (24 August 1858 – 24 April 1921) was a British official in the [[Indian Army]].<br />
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==Life of Dunlop Smith==<br />
He was born in [[Calcutta]] on 24 August 1858, son of [[George Smith (1833–1919)|George Smith]] (1833–1919), Principal of [[Doveton Boy's College]]. His siblings included [[Charles Aitchison Smith]], [[George Adam Smith]] and the mother of [[Rab Butler]]. He was educated at Edinburgh University and the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]].<br />
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Commissioned a [[Second Lieutenant]] in the 22nd Regiment 1879, Smith became a Lieutenant in the Indian Staff Corps in 1882. He was appointed Private Secretary to the Lieut-Governor of the Punjab, 1883, and Settlement Officer, Sialkot in 1887. He was then appointed Deputy Commissioner, Hissar, 1896; Director of Land Records and Agriculture, Punjab 1897; Famine Commissioner, Rajputana, 1899; member of Horse and Mule-Breeding Commission, India 1900; and Political Agent, Phulkian States and Bhawalpur, 1901.<br />
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Smith rose to become the Private Secretary to the Viceroy, [[Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto|Lord Minto]], from 1905 to 1910. He died 24 April 1921.<ref>{{citation |page=76 |title=Britain in India, 1858-1947 |author=Lionel Knight |publisher=Anthem Press |year=2012 |isbn=9780857285171}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Servant of India: A Study of Imperial Rule from 1905 to 1910 as Told Through the Correspondence and Diaries of Sir James Dunlop Smith |author=Sir James Robert Dunlop Smith, edited by [[Martin Gilbert]] |publisher=[[Longmans]] |year=1966}}</ref><ref>Who's Who 1916</ref> OP <br />
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==Family==<br />
Smith married Beatrice Clementia, eldest daughter of [[Sir Charles Umpherston Aitchison]], in 1887. They had two daughters; she died in 1902.<br />
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*[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/sir-james-dunlop-smith-108106 Portrait] by [[George Fiddes Watt]]<br />
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